For in such nights of cold, when there is no snow to cover them, the flowers that have crept into their roots to hide from the winter are not even able to dream of the spring;they grow quite stupid and benumbed, and sleep outright like a polar bear or a dormouse.

Because she left the cushion untidy, and as for the little bear's chair, why, she sat that right out.

Here the great burly brown bears delight to roam, harmonizing with the brown boles of the trees beneath which they feed.

" "An opinion, sir?" "Yes, sir; have you been thus long in the profession, or in contact with the profession," added Mr. Rushton, correcting himself, "without learning what an opinion is?" "Oh, sirI think I understand nowit is" "A very gratifying circumstance that you do," said Mr. Rushton, with the air of a good-natured grizzly bear.

but he learned a little piece of wisdom by that cuff that sent him down the bank, and got a little insight into the nater of an angry bear.

Seizing my rifle I looked up, and walking toward us on the beach, just 110 yards away, was a good sized bull bear.

How did she fear her fellow-brutes, and shun The shaggy bear, though now herself was one!

The furry bear.

In Eagle Harbor, on Kadiak Island, a native, three years ago, during the month of January, saw a female bear which he killed near her den.

For the hungry man nothing is superior to the taste or for the building up of sinews and muscles than the steak of fat young bear.

The cause of Clarissa's unhappiness was also apparent; for chained to a sapling nearby, rolling its great head foolishly from side to side, sat a tame bear.

But right before us down a steep-fall hill, A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast To meet us bothI faint to tell the rest, Good shepherdbut suppose the ghastly looks, The hideous fears, the thousand hundred woes, Which at this instant Amadine sustained.

Come, and ye bear, It's but your office; come, forget, sweet Moll.

Anazeh' came too, growling like a hungry bear, and after a couple of blood-curdling threats hurled at Suliman ben Saoud's back he took up position in the open door, facing the crowd, and dared any one to try to follow.

Never did poor hunted bear feel more conflicting emotions, when, surprised in her den, she stands over her offspring with uncertain heart, groaning with a mingled sound of tenderness and rage.

My loins into my paunch like levers grind: My buttock like a crupper bears my weight; My feet unguided wander to and fro; In front my skin grows loose and long; behind, By bending it becomes more taut and strait; Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow: Whence false and quaint, I know, Must be the fruit of squinting brain and eye; For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.

But right before us down a steep-fall hill, A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast To meet us bothI faint to tell the rest, Good shepherdbut suppose the ghastly looks, The hideous fears, the thousand hundred woes, Which at this instant Amadine sustained.

Bravoa Geminiflora (Twin Flower).This hardy bulbous plant bears lovely racemes of coral-coloured flowers in July.

There is a cinnamon bear in one of the outside cages, whose claws remind one sharply that cinnamon and cloves go together, and that clove is a tense of the verb "to cleave."

On each side of the gates are two enormous white stone bears, the emblems of the tutelary genius of this city.

THE SEVENTEEN LITTLE BEARS, by Laura Rountree Smith; new illus.

A few steps away from Joco a young girl sat upon the ground, gently stroking a light-colored little bear.

"Surest thing you know," he said; "black bears, gray bears, grisly bears" "Jiminy," I said.

The wanton winds with whistling murmur bear

The broad plateau, where Abram once had knelt, And where the hallowed Temple of the Jews Had glittered gorgeous with its gems and gold, Now bore, 'tis true, the stately Moslem mosque, But bore it as a captive bears his chains, Whose spirit is not crushed, but borne aloft